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Notes

IB Assessment Statements

Rutherford Chapter 8 & 16

3.1.1 Describe the nature and explain the implications of exponential growth in human populations

3.1.2 Calculate and explain, from given data, the values of crude birth rate, crude death rate, fertility, doubling time and natural increase rate

3.1.3 Analyze age/sex diagrams showing demographic transition models

3.1.4 Discuss the use of models in predicting the growth of human populations

3.7.1 Explain the difficulties in applying the concept of carrying capacity to local human populations

3.8.1 Explain the concept of an ecological footprint as a model for assessing the demands that human populations make on their environment

3.8.2 Calculate from appropriate data the ecological footprints of a given populations, stating the approximations and assumptions involved

3.8.3 Describe and explain the differences between the ecological footprints of two human populations, one form LEDC and one from MEDC

3.8.4 Discuss how national and international development policies and cultural influences can affect human population dynamics and growth

3.8.5 Describe and explain the relationships between population, resource consumption and technological development, and their influence on carrying capacity and material economic growth

Resources


Population Clock
Population Growth in Little Bitty Lights
Minature Earth
World in the Balance Website
Breathing Earth
population Reference Bureau
AIDS Clock
Population Growth Animation
Baraka: Chickens and People
Did You Know?
Yep, We Hit 7 Billion!
State of the World: Human Populations
Now What Do We Face?
7 Billion
Population Game from France
What's Your Number?
Most Average Person
World O Meteres: Real Time Statistics
New Problems Large Populations Cause
Population Growth Box by Box

Population Policy

Governments Paying People to Have Kids
Population Control: Wealthy Putting Down the Poor?

Population Theories

Malthus
Bitesized Malthus & Boserup
"Overpopulation is a Myth"

Obituaries

Obituaries
Genealogy Guide
St. Louis Obituaries By Year
New Woodstock Obituraries
Cemetary Data

Demographic Transition

Demographic Transition
Demography Game

Population Pyramids

US Census Information
Coolio Population Pyramids
Population Pyramid that Moves
Making Population Pyramids on Excel

Solutions/Family Planning

International Family Planning
Cell Phones as Family Planning
Microfinance
Kiva Microfinance
Brazil's Fertility Rate Dropping due to Soaps
Obituaries
How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place
UN Development Program

Ecologic Footprint

How Many Earths?
Nature Conservancy Carbon Footprint
One Minute Calculator
Carbon Footprint Ltd
EPA Emissions Calculator
Are you an environmentally friendly CEO?

Assignments

Demographic Transition Online lab